jeudi 23 juin 2016

Preamble: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku Sanjūrokkei), a series of landscape prints by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai that depicts Mount Fuji from different locations and in various seasons and weather conditions is much more interesting than these 24 taxi's view around Santiago's Island.

No God here to show the way. We can get lost, Deus d'fende! We're going to lose our way...great!

We look at signs on both sides of the road but there is
nothing that we could trust: some rocks, small hills, a man riding a cow,
some old acacias but... slowly one finds one's way.

Cidade Velha is on our map. António da Noli who discovered Santiago,"the ancient Hesperides of Pliny and Ptolemy" built there a garrison.

During World War II, an Italian destroyer was named Antonio da Noli.

It's strange how certain names aspire to them all sorts of facts.

Danisio, please, puts that song..."Ngabado ta nterrado" if I do remember, made by Finaçon, speaking of the most important Ribeiras of Santiago (Ribeira Grande, Ribeira dos Engenhos, Ribeira principal, etc.)

Cocteau said something like that:"These days, we are travelling the world at a high speed like
a fly who flies around an orange and no one goes much further than the peel". Cocteau never had a grogue...

He also said:"A poet is in a way a
work-hand whose act engages a self-more profound than himself...which he doesn't
know too well...mysterious forces which inhabit him and which he knows poorly".